"Selfie with Marilyn Monroe" by Heidi Seaborn

Selfie with Marilyn Monroe
— after Diane Seuss

— cucumber slices & ice & a compress
— a diaphragm
— Anne Sexton, a cigarette, vodka
— contract & divorce lawyers on speed dial
— ice. did I say ice? lemon peeler
— the roll up stockings I once wore
— a leisurely lap in the swimming pool
— Jimmy Choo shoes
— Ambien & dental floss
— the cliché of a hand mirror
— the garter & the man I wore them for
— do clocks still tick?
— gardenia champagne in the fridge, you never know
— this isn’t about her
— anti-aging cream & mascara
— I too have lived on that glittering edge

heidi seaborn

Heidi Seaborn is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and author of the award-winning debut collection Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, 2019) and two chapbooks. Since Seaborn returned to writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards and her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as American Poetry Journal, Frontier, Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, MORIA, Penn Review, The Slowdown, and Tar River. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from NYU.

www.heidiseabornpoet.com

Headshot: Rosanne Olson

Photo Credit: Staff